It’s Official: Trump just made up the 2024 crime wave. The FBI’s crime statistics show the migrant-fueled crime wave Trump and Vance kept talking about during the campaign was a total fabrication.
Many people were shocked by Donald Trump’s decision last week to fire the nonpartisan Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner because he didn’t like the July jobs report. But Trump has always disregarded statistics, or just plain facts, that contradict his overheated narrative of America’s treacherous decline under other presidents and its return to Greatness under his administrations. In the case of the jobs report, he asserted that “America is BOOMING” as a self-evident truth because this is his economy; BLS must have “rigged” last year’s jobs numbers to help Joe Biden, whose economy was obviously hellish.
We saw the same thing during the 2024 presidential campaign, when Trump constantly claimed America’s cities were facing an unprecedented violent-crime wave. As the Brennan Center reported at the time, this was a signature Trump issue from the get-go and was always an inversion of the truth:
Donald Trump stoked fears of a migrant-fueled crime wave at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, describing the United States under President Biden as awash in “bloodshed, chaos, and violent crime.” It was a near cut-and-paste from his CPAC speech last year, when he warned that the country was becoming a “lawless, open borders, crime-ridden, filthy, communist nightmare” …
The first problem with Trump’s narrative is the timeline. The spike in violent crime happened on Trump’s watch, not Biden’s. In 2020, the final year of the Trump presidency, murder rose by nearly 30 percent and assault by more than 10 percent.
